Wounded people are our family in need of rehabilitation, which is why Souriyat Across Borders established and operates a physical and psychological rehabilitation centre in Amman to provide them with medical and psychological support and to assist them in their recovery from life changing injuries.

When we are at capacity we try to give priority to patients with more recent injuries as the likelihood of their benefiting from treatment and even making a full recovery is higher. We also try to focus on patients with lost limbs who have not yet received prosthetic limbs as a part of their previous treatments. We source suitable prosthetic limbs for our amputee patients through our partner organisations working in Jordan which provide disability equipment such as Handicap International, Asia Development and Training and Al Hussein Association.

In addition to the medical care and physiotherapy, the patients can also be provided with accommodation, food, and transportation assistance in our centre, along with medical care and physiotherapy. We currently have the capacity to treat 30 in-patients in addition to our regular outpatients. Our team of 18 full-time staff includes fully qualified physiotherapists and nurses. The patients also benefit from a wide range of necessary equipment to support their physiotherapy and recovery.

Also, as part of rehabilitation, we have established our peer support training programme which is delivered by Obada. Obada is also a wheelchair user after being shot by a sniper in Syria. He has built on his own experiences to overcome his difficulties in becoming a wheelchair user to provide the necessary support for to the war wounded at our centre.  This support is done through motivating them and exchanging experiences in order for them to come to terms with their disability and learn how to lead independent lives in everyday activity and their social interactions and eventually reintegrate in the society. Our patients see Obada as their peer, given that he has been through a similar experience and recovery process, which helps them to relate to him and makes the coaching he delivers even more effective.

As part of the training programme, we encourage our patients to participate in sports activities such as wheelchair table tennis and wheelchair basketball as we believe that this contributes to giving them the confidence and self-belief they need once they are discharged from our centre. We go further to encourage these sports activities that are available for Syrian people with disabilities and supported by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) by sponsoring and organising tournaments including, most recently a table tennis tournament in aid of International Day of People with a Disability.

Please select a photo, below, to read more about some of our SAB family, their individual stories and how we were able to make a difference.